Non-refillable bottle.



' PATENTED AUG. 4 1903.

i A DIEMER NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION PILED SEPT. 24. 1902.

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Patented August 4, I O.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALLAN DIEMER, OF CIlEVELAND, OHIO.

NON-REFlLLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION formngpart of Letters Pate-nt No. ?35,349, dated August 4, 1903. Application filed September 24, 1902. Serial No. 124,!320. (No model.)

To alZ whom it may concrn:

Be it known tha-t I, ALLAN DIEMER, a citizen of the United States of Americaand a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Non- Refillable Bottles, of which the following is ai specification.

This invention relates to non-refillable bottles and it consists of a device to be inserted and locked in the neck of a bottle in such a manner that after the bottle has once been filled and the device has been inserted and locked in place the bottle cannot be again filled without destroying the device or so tampering with it that it will be easilydetected and render the contents under suspicion that it is not the original or genuine.

To accomplish this end 1 have constructed and applied a device substantially as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accom made with a tapering inside bore from top to bottom, the top of which is to be closed With a cork or stopper in the usual manner.

B is a plug or cylindrical-shaped stopper of smaller diameter than the interior of the neck A. It is provided with a shoulderb,

against which a rubber or other fleXible band or ring C rests. This band or ring is designed to tightly close the space between the plug and the inside of the neck A.

D is a wire spring-latch placed in the lower part of the 'plug B, having two or more depending arms d d, provided with hooks on their lower ends, which when the plug is inserted in the neck and forced down to the position shown in Fig. l will spring apart and then catch under the shoulder e, formed by the neck where it joins onto the body of !the bottle.

thebottle. The plug B is thus irremovable from the bottle without destruction. The plug is made with a bore from the bottom up about half its length, above which it has a larger chamber F. The shoulder f at the junetion of the bore forms a seat for a valve G. In the sides of the plug above the valve-seat are made perforations or openings h h for passages from the chamber F to the neck of The top of the chamber after the valve G has been inserted is closed up solid by any suitable means, as soldering, brazing, or otherwise, to secure the valve permanently in the chamber.

From this description and the drawings it will be seen that by tilting over the bottle the liquid contents may be poured out bythe valve rolling to the opposite' end of the chamber; but the bottle cannot be refilled, because the bottle must be held in the upright position, for then the valve sets in its seat and efiectually prevents ingress to the interiorof the bottle. The plug cannot be removed without damage or destruction. The bottle, therefore, is non-refillable.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a non-refillable bottle, the combination withflthe neck A, of a non-removable plug consisting of the body B, having a shoulder b, a flexible band O resting against said shoulder, a wire spring-latch D in'said plug having hooks d d, for catching under the shouL der e of the neck A, the lower bore and the upper chamber F in said plug, a valve Gr in the chamber for closing the bore, and the perforations h h in the sides of the chamber F, constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose 'set forth.

Signed by me at Cleveland, Ohio, this 22d day of September, 1902.

ALLAN DIEMER. YVitnesses:

GEO. W. mmm, J. DE KAISER. 

